kernel patches kill usb?
hi everyone,
I'm trying to install demudi on my woody amd k7 box, but in order to do so I have to re-roll
my kernel, and it's giving my trouble. here's the situation:
the demudi kernel is patched with: Posix capability; low-latency; and
acpi.
I need: full support for nvidia graphics; and usb input support (no
serial or ps/2 ports on my box)
so, I reinstalled the 21.4.18 source, the nvidia-kernel-src and
nvidia-glx-src packages (I had to install nvidia once before). Then I
installed kernel-patch-demudi, which in effect installs low-latency,
"capability", and acpi patches.
then I copied my old config file to /usr/src/linux/.config (after
linking linux to kernel-source-2.4.18, of ocurse), and ran make
menuconfig. The only settings I changed had to do with acpi power
management (I turned it on) and latency control (turned it on too).
then I followed the instructions for nvidia support (involves building
and installing two packages)
then I made a new grub entry in menu.lst and rebootead.
After a couple of screwups, I got the system to boot and start X
(Yay!). But for some reason USB is broken.
So, question: does anyone know if any of these patches has knwon
incompatibilities with usb support, or if they introduce new
mouse/keyboard/usb options within config? If so, does anyone know
what I shou
ld do? I've looked through the options, and it seems to me that
everything is checked about right... but I can't be 100l% sure.
Another question: can modconf or modprobe change the de1fault status
of a module for a kernel that _isn't currently running_? I was
wondering whether the problem might be that the necessary modules
aren't loading for some reason, but I 3don't know how I would fix
that.
thanks as usual!!!
matt
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